KnowledgeSTUDIO, data mining and analytics suite prepared by Angoss, the company originated from Toronto, is an interesting alternative to other popular solutions currently accessible in the market. What makes it better than others is a proportionate attention paid to every model development and deployment cycle phase, what influences in complex capabilities for profiling, exploring, modeling, implementing, scoring, validating, monitoring, and scorecard building. Once the performance is divided evenly among all the tasks, Angoss KnowledgeSTUDIO users are enabled to benefit from truly a competitive performance supported with visual environment facilitating the maintenance.

Despite the attention paid to each phase of the cycle, KnowledgeSTUDIO is praised for multiple purposes it's made for. They include differentiated marketing, sales, and risk analytics issues, providing each analysts with the powerful and scalable tool they can use quickly and effectively.

What's important, Angoss Knowledge STUDIO's interface - based on Microsoft Office is prepared for expert and beginning users as well. Thereupon, both groups of users are provided with complex enough capabilities which use is easier than ever before. Users can - then - try decision trees, logistical and linear regression, clustering and principal component analysis, and neural networks to answer their predictive modeling requirements. Even though a lot there is automated to help beginning users learn the system, experienced users have nothing to worry about - they'd find all advanced options they needed to gain total control on their analysis.

Once many risk departments still depend on traditional scorecards, Angoss KonwledgeSTUDIO provides quite a wide choice of capabilities for them, too. Thank to system's facilitations, they can prepare scorecards on their own and - therefore - save a lot of money and time. Moreover, there is a bunch of other predictive scorecards creating capabilities included so that users could easily take care about everything from acquiring to collecting.

KnowledgeSTUDIO's tools are kept all together at one place and integrated what simplifies turning from one to another. As for the scoring and deployment tools, all of them are connected within a single and unified environment.

Features for sampling and validation include:

• wizard driven partitioning
• hold out options
• lift charts
• KS charts
• ROC
• Goodness of Fit and Profit Curves
• Accuracy charts
• Bias charts
• scatter plots
• error charts.

Automated SQL, Java, PMML, XML, and SAS generators enable exporting generated models into diverse application, databases, rules engines, and decision management systems.

Angoss KnowledgeSTUDIO resources

http://www.angoss.com/files/docs/KnowledgeSTUDIO.pdf - even though producer's brochures usually don't have a lot of objective to say about the product, the Angoss note about KnowledgeSTUDIO seems to be different. There are two pages of useful information about solution's bases and fundamentals, however don't expect details, once they're not included, there. A good source of information for general recognizing the system.

http://www.comsol.ch/comsol/pub/media/pdf/Angoss%20KnowledgeSTUDIOWhitePaper.pdf - here is the white paper by Angoss describing the KnowledgeSTUDIO significantly more accurately. Even though the article is devoted to the fourth version of the software, it's worth interesting as it covers a lot of aspects that haven't changed over the past few years. Moreover, it also is one of few commonly accessible materials about Angoss solution.

http://www.angoss.com/form/form.php?docId=115&formId=2&asset=White%20Paper - the current version of Angoss KnowledgeSTUDIO white paper is accessible here, however there is a registration needed. Once the registration process shouldn't take too much time, it might be worth considering to get the white paper and compare it to other commonly accessible materials over the Internet, after all.